Self Quotes · Page 91

“If ego & illusory attachments (myness) leave, then one can attain moksha (ultimate liberation).”

— Dada Bhagwan

Will we fulfill God's purpose, or will we shrink back and live a comfortable, self-centered life?

— Rick Warren

“Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?”

— Oscar Wilde

“The ‘relative’ delights the mind (manoranjan), the ‘real’ delights the Self (the soul, atmaranjan).”

— Dada Bhagwan

Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.

— Vidal Sassoon

Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.

— J. K. Rowling

I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me.

— Nicholas Brendon

Every other religion is a salvation by self, Christianity is a salvation by Christ.

— Max Lucado

In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen.

— Richard Louv

To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)

— Steven Heighton

Tradition is an aspiration to connect the Self with the Other. One "internalizes" the Other as one acquires a sense of what…

— Talal Asad

When we encounter someone greater than ourselves, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you encounter someone lesser than you, look…

— Anonymous

Always concentrate on the most valuable use of your time. This is what separates the winners from the losers. Self-esteem is the…

— Brian Tracy

“Akram Vignan is where the worldly life goes on but there is no karma bondage and Kramic Gnan is where the worldly…

— Dada Bhagwan

“When one falls his shadow always embraces him, and his empty place is already someone else's. Kushal Poddar, Poet”

— Kushal Poddar, Poet

History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is…

— Robin G. Collingwood

“An essential virtue is humility. … The principle of humility and prayer leads one to feel a need of divine guidance. Self-reliance…

— David O. McKay

“When one attains the knowledge of the Self (Pure Soul within us), the whole world is then open for him. These are…

— Dada Bhagwan

“The mind performs its function, the intellect performs its function, the ego performs its function; they are all intents of the non-Self,…

— Dada Bhagwan

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a…

— Seamus Heaney

Here's a memonic device that I feel teaches how we can properly cope with failure. Forget about your failures; don't dwell on…

— Steve Largent

Should thoughts of self-praise, of self-satisfaction, occur to you, say: 'I myself am nothing; all that is good in me is accomplished…

— John of Kronstadt

When a culture is not mythologically instructed, not instructed in story that gives us a call, then we start looking for quasi-stories,…

— Jean Houston

Children build self-esteem by doing things that are hard and learning what works.

— Clayton Christensen

“In love, there is no need to choose between self and other, because self is other.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I like to get in tune with my self and really give myself the time to just be.

— Selah Louise Marley

The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable.

— Gautama Buddha

I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition.

— Richard Meale

Self-esteem is an inner feeling: Sometimes it corresponds with outer reality, and sometimes it doesn’t.

— Stanley Greenspan

If any one hates to be alone with himself, the chances are that he has not much of any self to be…

— Robert Haven Schauffler

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

— Max Muller

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

— Eric Hoffer

As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.

— Christina Ricci

The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.

— Djuna Barnes

most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

— Vera Brittain

I think there's something we all relate to about...wanting to get to our most primal self.

— Vin Diesel

The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

— Aristotle

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

— Kurt Vonnegut